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Just a topic of conversation for the forum. I am nineteen and have been riding on l plates but have just passed my test. Why am i bound by the government to be restricted to 33bhp when a 17 year old who has just passed his car test can go buy a ferrari or fast car. i have just bought a new sv650 and now i have to choke it to death with a form of restriction. is there a grudge against the biking community. My dad is a bike instructor in lincoln and we would both very much like to hear the opinion of people who matter.
thanks
geoff

Probably easier to kill yourself (or to get someone else to do it) on a bike than in a car. Try crashing a car into a wall at 30mph, and then try it on your bike. QED.

Ian

Totally agree with you mate. Not many people know this but I failed my full test and then re-took it on a 125 trails bike and passed. The 500cc DAS i took i failed on the U turn Gutted Then re took it on my own 125cc Honda XLR 125 and passed everything. Didn't even have an instructor with me the second time. I have rode resticted and un restricted bikes. The top end of a resticted bike is 90-95 mph and 0-60mph isn't that much different. I still can't u turn without putting my foot down, so I am totally confused why we still have to restrict the bike to 33bhp. I suppose it means you can't get caught doing 125mph and it saves you licence cause you can only reach 95mph.
sexysi

For my two penny worth, I think the government should follow suit with cars and restrict 17,18 year olds to 1.1's/low bhp etc...

Probably not the most popular opinion but there ya go, welcome to the clan anyway. Enjoy your SV.

this is what we want a nice broad range. good answer sexysi. i have a new car but i would choose my bike any day. even my rs50 still got used when i started driving.

keep posting

I also originally had a 2 year restriction, I don't disagree withe the idea but 33bhp is too low and 2 years is far to long! At the time the law had just been changed and restrictor kits didn't seem to be too widely available, and besides you ended up paying the same insurance with 1/2 the power , so it was a choice between a derestricted sports/trailie 125 or a Honda Superdream so I went for a grey import Yamaha SRX400 instead. Wish I'd ben able to get the SV instead, but they didn't even make them then (cos I'm sooo old?!!)

the kids of today, they have it all their way...

as iffy says its much easier to kill yourself on a bike than it is on a car, if you were seventeen and passed your test then, you would be able to ride without restriction as the 2 years have passed and the restriction is lifted,

not many 17 year old can afford to buy, run and more importantly insure a ferrari, but most 17 year olds can afford to buy a bike which is capable of wasting a ferrari away from the lights up to around 60- 70 mph, now to give a seventeen year old a bike without restricting it, would cripple the biking community as the amount of deaths would rise dramatically 17year old+hayabusa+no road sense= instant death when he leaves the showroom,
all it takes is a slight twist of a throttle and u can go from 30- 100mph in a matter of second and this is why we have restricted bikes, to stop stupid 17 year olds whizzing through built-up areas at 150mph, can u imagine what a feild day the british press would have with that kind of material?
all of us would be slapped with restricted machines to meet the great public uproar

yes its a bummer that u will have to wait the 2 years but theres nothing that can be done about it unfortunatly, yes you will have more sense than a 17 year old but thats not what the government thinks

Your not old your very cute, put a poll on the oakdene site IS RIZLASV CUTE YES or NO. You'll get a lot of yes's from the Oakdene lot I'm sure.
sexysi
Cute girl Cute bike, Can't wait for a photo shot

ah, you're such a charmer!

Oh darling you like the forum, great place to meet people, You wanna come round the back of the bike shed.